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"If you're idle for a few minutes, if you go to the bathroom or whatever, a pop-up will come up and it'll say, 'You have 60 seconds to start working again or we
by Tade0 7y ago
"If you're idle for a few minutes, if you go to the bathroom or whatever, a pop-up will come up and it'll say, 'You have 60 seconds to start working again or we're going to pause your time,' " the woman said.
Solution to that using appliances available in every home:
Dangle the mouse from you desk and put a fan next to it so that it hits the mouse from time to time.
But also quit your job - managers who use such tactics are usually very trigger-happy when it comes to firing people, so you're just delaying the inevitable.
- moolcool 7y agoOr get a USB mouse jiggler! https://www.amazon.ca/Cru-Dataport-Wiebetech-30200-0100-0011-Jiggler/dp/B000O3S0PK https://www.amazon.ca/Cru-Dataport-Wiebetech-30200-0100-0011...
- lozaning 7y agoJust buy a digispark for $4 and reflash it to be a rubber ducky.
- matheusmoreira 7y agoIt's probably not difficult to work around these checks but nobody should be suffering this indignity in the first place. People can't even go to the bathroom without getting called out by managers over lost productivity. How dehumanizing.
- Tade0 7y agoAnd it's not even effective. There's a quote from one of the more known Total Quality Management evangelists, which stuck with me(paraphrased): "Don't engage in games with your employees, because you can't win." He elaborates further explaining that any scheme or incentive system created for a specific behavioral outcome is bound to be exploited or otherwise worked around.
- rconti 7y agoIt's central planning, seems like. Does "the boss" really think they can implement a system that one of their 5 or 10 or 50 or 100 employees can't figure out how to circumvent?
- blaser-waffle 7y agoTQM is all about how you need to fix the system, not fix the employees. If you can't trust your team, then no amount of bathroom-break-monitoring is going to make things better...
- beervirus 7y agoThis is not a great time to be quitting your job.
- SamuelAdams 7y agoI often wonder how managers like this manage employees with kids. Kids are little chaotic machines. It's not uncommon for a parent to need to interfere with their kids activities for 10 minutes here and there. So the bossman is saying they should be at their desk working on their thing and let 3 year old Johnny ride his bicycle down the stairs?
- stronglikedan 7y agoThe bossman is saying the employee should take care of their kid in the exact same was as if they were working from the office - which is to say someone else is usually doing it. The bossman is conveniently ignoring the fact that schools are closed, while the bossman's SO is taking care of their own kids - which is to say that the bossman is intentionally being willfully ignorant of the employee's situation. I would expect nothing less from a bossman that thought this type of surveillance was a good idea in the first place.